this piece was born as an exploration of the blog as a web-based device for algorithmic creation. through randomly-assembled posts and a visual layout that reorganizes itself with each page refresh, i wanted to bring forward this interface as what it was always for me at some point: an imagined, media-saturated space of mediated intimacy and affective production

the idea came from the guidelines for the exhibition: a sound piece where the web environment is involved in the listening experience, that explores "the “voices” of ghosts—that is, the voices of those marginalized by society"

web-browsing and music listening were always interconnected for me. i had a blog when i was 15 or 16 or so. i tried looking it up on the wayback machine, but the only snapshots left are from when left it on hiatus. this year (2025) i started a new one, re-learning all the html and css i guess i knew back then and that i had completely forgotten

from then to now, the struggle for connection, sustaining friendships, and such still remain central. i think about the possibility of coming together through mediated means: the internet, guestbooks, media. for some of us, having some kind of mediation is basically like life support for our ability to connect with others and to confront marginalization

i also focused on how a lot of blogs, like my friends' and the ones i used to visit back then, are or were deeply tied with the media the creator engages with, so i decided to let that infuse all the visual imagery of the display. posters on a wall constantly renewing themselves. blogs and (fansites) shrines tightly tied. no clear delimitation between a home(page) and shrine

the sound that accompanies the web is a deconstruction of the di gi charat insert song PARTY☆NIGHT